Procrastination
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| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "Procrastination" | |
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| Chronology | |
| Next: | I'm With Stupid (37b) |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 2 |
| Episode №: | 37a |
| Airdate: | November 30, 2001 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #100 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Walt Dohrn Paul Tibbitt Doug Lawrence |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Carson Kugler William Reiss Erik Weise |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Walt Dohrn Paul Tibbitt |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Procrastination" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.
Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Mrs. Puff
- Patrick Star
- Gary
- Fish at carnival
- Clock
- House
- Flame
- Pants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Boating School students
- "Mailfish"
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Plot
SpongeBob is assigned an 800-word essay at boating school about what not to do at a stoplight, which is due the following day. Unfortunately, SpongeBob's initial excitement about the project is not enough to overcome the writer's block he experiences as soon as he sits down to write. After hours of procrastination, followed by a dream during the night about his inability to finish the report, SpongeBob wakes just in time for school to begin. In an effort to overcome his procrastination, he writes about everything that happened in his dream as ideas of what not to do at a stoplight. After rushing to boating school, full of excitement at having completed the assignment just in time, SpongeBob learns from Mrs. Puff that she has a teachers' meeting and the class will be going on a field trip to a stoplight instead. Stupefied by his unnecessarily bizarre night, SpongeBob rips his essay in half and also splits himself in half.
Transcript
Deleted Scene
The following scenes were deleted from the episode. To this day, the reason has yet to be revealed.
As SpongeBob begins to write his essay he looks outside and sees a carnival with the sun smiling, a roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, Squidward suntanning, kids playing with a ball, a fish eating ice cream, two jellyfish playing tennis, Gary rolling on a ball playing a horn, and Patrick rubbing sunscreen on Sandy, the latter of which probably triggered the removal due to sexual connotations. The scene is kept on the season 2 DVD.
Later, when SpongeBob says that he must complete the essay, so that he will be "one step closer to my boating license!", a live action clip is shown of a dragster roaring off the starting line, flipping over, and sliding on its rollbar. It was cut to prevent kids from imitating the stunt. Along with that, a scene in which SpongeBob does calisthenics was cut, for as of yet unknown reasons. In these, SpongeBob exercised his eyebrows, nose, eyelashes.
APM Music Identification
- Dramatic Cue H - "It's only 10:00?!"
- Dramatic Cue E - "How does he know I have to write an essay?"
- The Plot Thickens - "In other news, local resident SpongeBob SquarePants only has a few hours to complete his essay, and yet he continues to goof off." (head stricks out TV) "When will he learn?"
- Terror By Night - SpongeBob's house burns.
- Flight In Panic (1) - "Help! HELP! My house is on fire!"
- Unpreventable - "It's almost 9:00!"
Trivia/Goofs
- On his essay, SpongeBob misspells "Stoplight" Spotlight.
- This episode and "I'm with Stupid" have unusually pale coloring and seem to be more dramatic than the other season 2 episodes.
- The title card is a reference to the painting "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali, where multiple clocks seem as if they are melted. The painting is also shown when SpongeBob rushes to the desk before his pants fall off.
- In this episode SpongeBob has kelp milk, Aqua Bread, Horse of the Sea, a chinese take out box,an ice cube tray, two cans of soda(one red the other green), an orange box, a purple box, ketchup, and mayo all in his fridge.
- The German version of this episode is called "Der Aufsatz", which means "The Essay".
- An instrumental version of the Tiny Tim song from the first episode plays in the background while Spongebob is cleaning his kitchen.
- The (children laughing) caption is kept in the closed captioning of the edited version.
- When SpongeBob wakes up from his dream and looks at the paper before looking at the clock, only the word "The" is shown and the "What not to do at a stoplight by Spongebob Squarepants" is missing from the top.
- In other episodes, Spongebob uses a "Shell Phone", but when he is talking to Patrick in this episode, he uses a metal telephone.
- The box of snail food Spongebob feeds to Gary is intentionally misspelled as "Snail Fud".
- On Youtube, the title card for the Chinese dub is the same as the English with two Chinese characters on the word, but under them you see the word "Procrastination".
External links
| This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Procrastination. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with SpongeBob SquarePants, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
